Introduction to the Study of English Language 1-2 
              Introduction to the Study of English Language 1 
              This course focuses on the essentials of English linguistics. It provides students with a general 
              perspective concerned with the areas of phonetic, phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, 
              semantic, stylistic,  pragmatic  and  other  related  issues.  It  introduces  students  to  some  current 
              debates reflecting the nature, structure and function of language within the modern concepts 
              related to the study of language and its essential terminology. 
              Introduction to the Study of English language 2 
              The course provides an introduction to the study of literature. It focuses on the fundamental 
              concepts and questions about the nature of literature. The following components will be covered 
              within the course – fiction, poetry, drama. Each and every component will be accompanied by a 
              selection of relevant readings.   
               
              Phonetics and Phonology of Contemporary English Language 1-2 
              Phonetics  and  Phonology  of  Contemporary  English  Language  1  –  this  course  deals  with  the 
              segmental features of English  pronunciation.  Firstly,  basic  terms  along  with  the  production  of 
              speech sounds are introduced and described.  Afterwards, the following segmentals are discussed: 
              vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs, consonants (plosives, fricatives, affricates, nasals and other 
              consonants). 
              Phonetics and Phonology of Contemporary English Language 2 – the course is concerned with the 
              prosodic features of English pronunciation. The following suprasegmentals are discussed:  syllables 
              (strong  and  weak  syllables),  stress  (simple  and  complex  words),  aspects  of  connected  speech, 
              intonation along with its functions.  
                                              
               
                                                                       
               
              Morphology of Contemporary English Language 1-4 
               
              Morphology of Contemporary English Language 1: The course presents morphology as a linguistic 
              discipline.  It  introduces  basic  notions  and  units  from  the  morphological  level  of  the  English 
              language. It analyses the English language according to individual word classes. This part of the 
              course in Morphology concentrates on characteristics and classification of English nouns and their 
              basic grammatical categories (number, gender, countability). It also deals with the category of 
              determination  and  the  use  of  determinatives  (predeterminers,  central  determiners  and 
              postdeterminers in English). A special attention is paid to the usage of the definite, indefinite and 
              zero articles. 
               
              Morphology  of  Contemporary  English  Language  2:  The  course  covers  the  word  classes  of 
              pronouns,  adjectives  and  adverbs.  Content  of  study:  the  characteristics  and  classification  of 
              English  pronouns  (personal,  reflexive,  possessive,  relative,  interrogative,  demonstrative  and 
              indefinite);  the  characteristics  and  classification  of  adjectives,  criteria  for  adjectives;  the 
              relationships between adjectives and adverbs, adjectives and participles, adjectives and nouns; 
              adjectives and their negative prefixes; the characteristics and classification of English adverbs and 
              their syntactic functions. Students apply their theoretical knowledge in numerous exercises. 
               
              Morphology of Contemporary English Language 3: The course provides a detailed analysis of the 
              word  class  verbs  both  from  theoretical  and  practical  points  of  view.  Content  of  study:  the 
              characteristics  and  classification  of  full-meaning  English  verbs;  the  morphology  of  regular  and 
              irregular verbs; auxiliary verbs in English – the primary verbs be, have, do and modal auxiliaries; 
              the  structure  of  a  verb  phrase,  finite  and  non-finite  verb  phrases,  simple  and  complex  verb 
              phrases; the system of English particles, the infinitive, the gerund; the grammatical categories of 
              verbs (mood, voice, and tense). 
               
              Morphology of Contemporary English Language 4: The course covers English present, past, future 
              and perfect simple and continuous tenses, their meanings, forms, and uses. The verb category 
              aspect (its morphological characteristic and classification) is dealt with in detail, too. 
               
              Lexicology of Contemporary English Language 1-2 
              Lexicology of Contemporary English Language 1: This course deals with the study of lexis and the 
              traditional scope of lexicology including such areas as onomasiology, semasiology, semantic fields, 
              syntagmatic  and  paradigmatic  relations  between  words  (homonymy,  polysemy,  synonymy, 
              antonyms, hyperonyms, hyponyms etc). Afterwards, slang, jargon, neologisms, archaisms, national 
              and regional varieties and dialects are discussed. Terms such as political correctness and gender 
              issues  are  also  introduced  and  adequately  described.  Special  attention  is  also  paid  to  English 
              vocabulary (amount of words in the English language, vocabulary range of a native speaker etc.) 
              and English lexicography and dictionaries.  
                                              
               
                                                      
           Lexicology of Contemporary English Language 2: The subject is primarily concerned with the word 
           formation  processes  in  the  English  language  (affixation,  conversion,  compounding,  shortening, 
           back-formation, blending and others). Moreover, lexical semantics, semantic fields and semantic 
           shift are introduced. Finally, phrases, patterns, collocations and idiomatic expressions along with 
           the etymology of English words are discussed in detail.  
            
           Syntax of Contemporary English Language 1-2 
           Syntax of Contemporary English language 1 
           The  course  covers  everything  students  need  to  know  about  syntactical  elements.  It  offers  a 
           detailed  description  of  syntactical  structures  dealing  with  simple  sentence.  Students  are 
           encouraged to apply their knowledge using different practical examples. Content of study: Syntax, 
           sentence  –  types  of  sentences  from  syntactic  point  of  view,  clause,  phrase,  parts  of  speech, 
           sentence elements – terminology; phrases – types and functions of phrases, types and functions of 
           clauses;  types  of  sentences  from  semantic  point  of  view;  simple  sentence  and  its  patterns; 
           sentence elements in detail; verbs – types, classes, verb forms; verb categories, mood and aspect 
           in  detail;  passive  voice,  causative;  predicate  –  simple,  compound  nominal  and  verbal;  subject; 
           Subject-Verb  Concord;  Word  Order,  inversion,  negation,  transferred  negation;    object    direct, 
           indirect  and  prepositional;    complement:  subject  and  object  complement;  copulative  verb;  
           adverbial modifiers in general adjuncts, disjuncts and conjuncts;  pro-forms; ellipsis, and block 
           language. 
           Syntax of Contemporary English language 2 
           The course offers a detailed description of syntactical structures dealing with compound, complex 
           and  compound-complex  sentences.  Content  of  study:  coordination,  linkers,  coordinators; 
           subordination,  syntactic  functions  of  clauses;  that  –  clauses;  wh-,  yes-no  and  alternative 
           interrogative clauses, exclamative clauses; to-infinitive clauses, –ing clauses, bare infinitive clauses, 
           verbless clauses; clauses of time, place, condition, concession and contrast; clauses of exception, 
           reason, purpose, and result; clauses of similarity, comparison, proportion, preference, comment 
           clauses; relative clauses; comparative clauses, wish clauses; agreeing and disagreeing in English; 
           direct and indirect speech. 
            
           Stylistics of Contemporary English Language 
           The course presents Stylistics as a partial linguistic discipline which focuses on the study of written 
           and oral styles. The attention is paid to Stylistics from the historical point of view and to the 
           general characteristics of the term style. Stylistics is viewed also as a discipline which overlaps 
           both with linguistic and non-linguistic branches of science. It deals also with the peculiarities of 
           functional styles of the contemporary English language (the belles-lettres style, the scientific prose 
           style, the newspaper style, the publicistic style, the style of official documents). The students are 
           encouraged to analyse texts belonging to the above mentioned functional styles. 
                                   
            
                                                                      
               
              British and American Studies and Literature 1-4 
              British and American Studies and Literature 1 
              The course provides an overview of British history from prehistoric Britain to the 20th century with 
              an emphasis on the dynasties of the Tudors and Stuarts and the Reformation. It also deals with the 
              social and cultural background of United Kingdom such as: political organization, 
              education system,  geography, and the Commonwealth countries. The main aim of the course is to 
              familiarize  students  with  basic  information  about  the  history  and  culture  of  the  former  and 
              contemporary UK. 
               
              British and American Studies and Literature 2 
              This  course  will  provide  an  introduction  to  essential  topics  of  American  history,  to  the  main 
              themes and periods of historical development of the United States of America as  well as the 
              essential features of its physical geography and basic features of the US political life. The source 
              materials for this course draw upon primary readings based on the most important events from 
              American history. 
               
              British and American Studies and Literature 3 
              The focus of the course will be placed on the works of literature in the British Isles from 597 AD up 
              to the 19th century. The course will focus on the most important works and authors, as well as on 
              literary movements, the most significant literary techniques and ideas that dominated the world 
              of letters in the respective period of time. The course will also concentrate on the greatest works 
              and on the most distinguished authors with the aim to present an insight into the respective 
              literary movements. 
               
              British and American Studies and Literature 4 
               
              The course deals with American literature from the colonization of America in the 17th century to 
              the end of the 19th century with an emphasis on formative ideas of the American nation, such as 
              self-reliance,  individualism,  and  progress.  The  contents  stress  crucial  authors  like:  Bradstreet, 
              Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Dickinson, Twain, and Chopin. Lessons significantly use knowledge 
              from culture and history providing space for students to work with original materials in order to 
              develop critical thinking and reader´s autonomy. 
               
               
              Development of Communicative Competence 1 - 4 (DCC) 
               
              The course aims at gaining communicative competence; all skills (reading, listening, speaking and 
              writing) and systems (grammatical, lexical, phonological, functional and discoursal) are deemed to 
              be important and are focused upon.